<quoted text>No not denying that it happens at all. Geologists have demonstrated this. Ararat is a massif. Not many people know that. But I still find the evidence more compelling that there was water at 14,000 feet there at one time during the early years of man. The pillow lava is consistent with this.

More plausible by far that the bits at 14,000 feet were once at the bottom of the ocean, and subsequently raised. Especially since the process is ongoing.

Kaitlin the Wolf Witch wrote: Lil Ticked wrote:<quoted text>Blah. Wiccans and their "magic/nature" hoodoo voodoo crap. Don't they realize that the "New Age" trend has died a long time ago? I suppose after a person spends thousands of dollars on crystals and incense that they can't let it all go to waste.<quoted text>Like christians and their prayers, and their li'l savior and their belief that they're forgiven and that non-believers all go to their hell.What a silly fad.

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<quoted text>your point?

Christianity is just as much a "fad" as Wicca or any Nature religion. More so, actually; it promises "salvation" from imaginary tortures.

I'm glad that the majority of christians here are killing their own religion.

Kaitlin the Wolf Witch wrote:Lil Ticked wrote:<quoted text>Blah. Wiccans and their "magic/nature" hoodoo voodoo crap. Don't they realize that the "New Age" trend has died a long time ago? I suppose after a person spends thousands of dollars on crystals and incense that they can't let it all go to waste.<quoted text>Like christians and their prayers, and their li'l savior and their belief that they're forgiven and that non-believers all go to their hell.What a silly fad.<quoted text>Christianity is just as much a "fad" as Wicca or any Nature religion. More so, actually; it promises "salvation" from imaginary tortures.I'm glad that the majority of christians here are killing their own religion.

and you are telling me this why? Is it because you agree that wiccans are trendy rejects that can't let go of the 90's?

the different seasons, caused by how far and how close the earth gets to the sun.

This part is wrong.

The seasons are caused by the earth's axialtilt, the angle by which its axis deviates from the perpendicular to the plane in which it orbits the sun. Thus, the north pole tilts toward the sun in one part of the orbit, and on the other side, six months later, the north pole will be tilting away from it as the south pole tilts toward it.

The earth orbits the sun in an ellipse, with the sun at one of its foci. This means that the earth is closest to the sun once a year. It turns out that the south pole is pointing at the sun at this time, and getting its maximal sun exposure. This is summer for the southern hemisphere. The northern hemisphere gets its fullest sun six months later when the earth is as far from the sun as possible - its summer. Thus the seasons depend on the tilt, and NOT the distance from the sun. If you live in the northern hemisphere, your summer comes when the earth is furthest from the sun, not closest.

This illustration is labeled from a northern hemispheric perspective: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_tex... Note that when the earth is closest to the sun, it is winter in the northern hemisphere because the north pole is tiled away from the sun. That is the southern hemisphere's summer.

Thus, distance from the sun is not as important a factor as the angle and direction of the earth's axial tilt.

Interestingly, the angle of the axial tilt, presently 23.44° from perpendicular varies between 22.1 degrees at its minimum to 24.5 degrees at the maximum over a 41,000 year cycle. The more upright the earth, the less extreme the seasons.

Furthermore, at the same time, the earth is precessing like a top over a 26,000 year cycle, which moves the date of the solstice (see precession of the equinoxes). In 13,000 years, the earth's north pole will no longer be pointing at the northern star (polaris), and summer will occur for the northern hemisphere when it is closest ti the sun, not furthest as is the case presently. http://ancientegypt.hypermart.net/royalarch/

And believe it or not, both the orientation of the earth's elliptical orbit and its degree of eccentricity - its departure from perfect circularity - also cycle.

The eccentricity of the earth's orbit varies from a minimum of .0034 (zero means perfect circularity) to a maximum of 0.0580 (mean eccentricity is 0.0280) and back again over a period of 413,000 years.

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